Located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in a high
desert and forest pine setting (at an altitude of 5,500 feet above sea
level) the
Nicklaus Signature course at Montrêux
Golf & Country Club is routed around a private residential
development which is easily accessed from Reno to the north or Lake
Tahoe to the south.

Fairways, tees and
greens are carpeted in a variety of bent grasses, with rough areas on
the periphery of the holes comprising a mix of fescue and bluegrass.
More
than seventy fairway and greenside bunkers are furnished with a
special blend of white sand that’s shipped in from Idaho.

The PGA Tour’s
Barracuda Championship – founded as the Reno-Tahoe Open in 1999 –
is held annually at Montrêux
as an alternate event, opposite the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, and
it’s the only tournament on the men’s main professional circuit
that employs a Modified Stableford scoring system to encourage
aggressive play.

The signature “Bear
Trap” is a dramatic trio of holes that starts with a slightly
doglegging par four at the 6th, continues with a short par three to a
shallow, pond-protected green at the 7th, and ends with the longest
hole on the card at the 636-yard 8th.

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